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58.—In 1895 a Departmental Committee of the Home Office
Cab radius. recommended that the cab radius should be that
of the Administrative County of London, minus Plum stead;
that drivers should not be compellable after a certain hour in the
evening to go any considerable distance, except in the direction of
their homes, and that for this purpose the Metropolitan area should
be divided into districts and the cabs of each district distinguished
by a lamp of a particular colour. No steps having been taken to
adopt the recommendation of the Committee, this Council, together
with other Borough Councils, urged the Home Secretary to
take the necessary steps to extend the cab radius upon the above
lines.
Combined
Drainage.
59-—A Conference on this subject, convened by the Battersea
Borough Council, was held at the Municipal
Buildings, Lavender Hill, at which Councillor
Hunt represented this Council. A resolution was passed that the
President of the Local Government Board be asked to receive a
deputation with the view of inducing the Government to introduce
a Bill dealing with the matter; that each Council be invited to
appoint two representatives and the Town Clerk to join the proposed
deputatoin ; and that the Members of Parliament for the
Borough be also asked to attend. Alderman Howell and Councillor
Hunt were appointed to represent this Council, and the
Members of Parliament for this Borough have been asked to join
the deputation. The President of the Local Government Board
has not yet made an appointment to receive the deputation.
Paving
Charges.
60.—Places of worship belonging to the Established Church,
being permanently devoted to the purpose of
religious worship, are exempt from charges under
apportionments of the cost of paving new streets ; but Nonconformist
places of worship are not so exempt. Representations
have been made from time to time by Trustees of Nonconformist
places of worship as to this hardship, and the Council presented a
memorial to the Government in favour of the removal of the
anomaly.